Amazon Kinesis Data Streams added a fully serverless feature called streaming tables to deliver data continuously to Amazon S3 Tables formatted with Apache Iceberg. This eliminates the need for customers to maintain their own delivery pipelines, reducing data delivery costs by up to 50%. Intelligent inline compaction addresses the small file issue common in streaming ingestion, stabilizing query performance and cutting downstream query costs by roughly 30%.
The service automates scaling, retries, compaction, and reliable delivery, requiring no custom applications or compute management. Customers configure streaming tables via the console or APIs, paying only for successfully delivered data. Streaming tables support various capacity modes and are available in all AWS regions offering Kinesis Data Streams, including US GovCloud and China regions.
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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces streaming tables, delivering data to Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon S3 Tables ↗Source published 2026-08-28. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.